Practice with iMovie

I have foolishly volunteered to film and edit a small clip for a class project. I'd tested out some thing I could do on iMovie. Here are the results:

Korean!!!

Years ago I went to South Korea to teach English at a kids' summer camp. I had loads of great food, and I made one great friend in particular. But the food is really what I'm going after here. One of my favorite dishes was bulgogi. I had it a couple of times in Korea, and that's usually what I order from Korean restaurants (because I don't go very often.) I'm not a fan of kimchee, the traditional side dish, but generally the food is quite good. If you do have a Korean eatery in your town (and there's at least one in Knoxville to all of you from there) I highly recommend going.

I do love asian food in practically any form and from any Asian country. Yesterday I went to Borders to pick up a cheap general cookbook, which I found quite easily. Whilst looking about some more, I noticed a huge cookbook of Korean recipes. And it was only $5! I purchased it of course. The first dish I made had to be bulgogi!

It didn't look like much at first. This is the meat in it's oh-so complicated marinating sauce.

The finished product! Rice, bulgogi and spinach namul. Not presented in the traditional Korean way, but it did taste spot-on.

On a side note, someone asked me if I wasn't cooking the days I don't post. I am still cooking, but I thought I'd leave pictures for food that looks appetizing and that I would recommend to others. Plus, I can't go on blogging about every meal. I'm in school.

Medusa

I went as Medusa this year for Halloween. The snakes were a bit more difficult to affix to my hair than anticipated. I started out with the complete rubber snakes, then moved to the snakes, hot glue and hair clips, and finally what worked was super glue on a cut-off half snake and the hair clips.

Despite the trouble I think it turned out pretty well. The only real problem was the freak storm that came through Boston. However, I was in excellent company and now it's a fun story to tell.

Me as a Modern Medusa

Happy Halloween!!!

I'm sorry I've been remiss of my blogging duties, but I have been absolutely swamped with schoolwork.

I did find this adorable I Has a Hot Dog? picture that I wish to share.

Cooking!

I've decided in order to both cut back on my personal upkeep costs, as well as trying to keep my resolution about being more healthy, I'm going to start cooking more! Yeah! Starting tonight!

I just wanted to point out what I'm working with. Not a whole lot of space. Especially when I've got my doo-dads and appliances working. (Yeah for my rice cooker and grill!)

I made a meal of summer squash, bell peppers and rice. It was a bit bland, but I know to spice it up a bit the next time. Any advice would be welcome. I also wouldn't mind other recipe tips. But please keep in mind, I don't have a whole lot of room for crazy ingredients or really elaborate meals. Plus, it's only for me after all. No need to go crazy.

Also, the horror continues with A Haunting in Connecticut. Whoooo!

Let the Halloween Movie-watching begin!

Actually, I've already been watching a couple of Halloween movies, but this week I start in earnest. And I being with the great

Practical Magic!

One of the more girly Halloween movies, but a good one nonetheless.

If you don't already know, I'm a bit of a wimp when it comes to scary movies, so this might mean some unintentional all-nighters. Luckily, however, I am surrounded by tasty Dunkin coffee, and pumpkin flavored to boot! Yay!

HOCKEY!!!

I'm going to blame this on my landlord. No, he's not a hockey fan that I'm aware of (although you never can tell), but he does supply my with awesome satellite channels such as NHLN. As it turns out, the professional sport which I've always had a soft spot for (yeah Ice Bears!) but never really paid too much attention to, makes excellent background chatter. It's interesting, but I'm not glued to it (like I sometimes do with stuff on the history channel.)

However, I just found out that there are student tickets available to some Bruins home games, and I can't live in Boston and not see some professional sports team. I hope some of my friends are interested in coming along with me. It will be so much fun! Hockey, especially live, is always fun!

Go Bruins!